OF Zin] Some read Sin, as the vulgar Latine, but corruptly; for it is not the same word, as the difference of the first letters shew, for the former is written with Samech, this with Tsadi; nor the same place mentioned, Exodus 16:1. where it rained Manna, for that was but the eighth mansion, this is the thirtie third, but as some reckon it, the twentie third. first moneth] This was the first moneth of the fourtieth yeare after their departure out of Egypt; for their next removall was from Kadesh to Hor, which seemeth to be in the same yeare when Aaron dyed, and he dyed in the first day of the fifth moneth of the fourtieth yeare, after the children of Israel were come out of the Land of Egypt, as is expressely said, Numbers 33:38. so that from this Chapter to the end of Deuteronomy, are described the passages of the fourtieth or last yeare of the journeying of the Hebrews in the wildernesse. Kadesh] As this was another desert from Sin in the eighth mansion, so this was another Kadesh then that which is called Kadesh Barnea, for kadesh Barnea was in the Southerno confines of the Land of Canaan; but the Kadesh here spoken of, was (though Southward also) farre off, in the confines of Idumea, or uttermost border of the King of Edom, vers. 14, & 16. of this Chapter. Miriam died] The sister of Aaron and Moses, she died foure monethes before her brother Aaron, when she was of the age of one hundred and thirtie yeares, and about the yeare of the world, 25 24.